Backrooms spawned from a YouTube series, and if you want to familiarize yourself with the world, these are the videos to check out.

Backrooms is in theaters soon, and now critic reviews are coming in, giving the film a Rotten Tomatoes score that isn't going to set the world on fire.

With his film debut, Backrooms, the YouTuber Kane Parsons reimagines mundane spaces as hallucinatory nightmares.

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, and Mark Duplass star in an adaptation of the hit YouTube series.

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Here's the wild story of how an anonymous internet comment spawned \

The movie, which hits theaters Friday, is also produced by genre leaders James Wan and Osgood Perkins, and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and Mark Duplass.

“Backrooms,” director Kane Parsons’ horror thriller based on his hit YouTube web series, is new in theaters this weekend and is winning over most Rotten Tomatoes critics.

A bold horror tale directed by YouTube creator Kane Parsons, Backrooms was inspired by the popular Portal video games.

Desde el boom en redes sociales al estreno en cines, la película del joven y famoso youtuber Kane Parsons expande el universo creado por miles de usuarios y se convierte en su…

PARIS, May 28 — Originating as a creepy shared story told online by ordinary internet users, the “Backrooms” universe erupts into American cinemas tomorrow with a film...

“Backrooms,” a psychological horror flick opening this weekend, is part of a wave of breakout films from fledgling directors who honed their instincts on YouTube.

Filmmakers like Kane Parsons are getting their start on YouTube, before moving to bigger productions.

'Backrooms' has made $10.4 million at the box office Thursday previews, a record for A24

Short answer: Yes. But there's a caveat.

You'll audibly gasp in the theater, guaranteed

If you're a young movie director, you get your start on YouTube. Next: graduating to movie theaters, and crushing the competition.

Director Kane Parsons explains the lore of 'Backrooms' for people who aren't yet initiated, and talks about future installments.

The film has years of internet lore backing up its premise

A24’s Backrooms nails the feeling of the Backrooms: drifting into an undetermined limbo that is unnavigable and inhospitable.

Before “Backrooms” made it to the big screen, Kane Parsons was creating a creepy Youtube series of found footage videos of the same name.